[PATCH v3 0/5] ARM: vf610: Add DCU framebuffer driver for Vybrid VF610 platform

Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen at ti.com
Fri Sep 20 06:04:27 EDT 2013


On 13/09/13 10:07, Wang Huan-B18965 wrote:
> My comments inline.
> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Tomi Valkeinen
>> [mailto:tomi.valkeinen at ti.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013
>> 6:33 PM To: Wang Huan-B18965 Cc: plagnioj at jcrosoft.com;
>> linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm- kernel at lists.infradead.org;
>> Jin Zhengxiong-R64188; Estevam Fabio-R49496; shawn.guo at linaro.org 
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] ARM: vf610: Add DCU framebuffer driver
>> for Vybrid VF610 platform
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 03/09/13 11:21, Wang Huan-B18965 wrote:
>>> Hi, Jean-Christophe, Tomi,
>>> 
>>> Could you please help to review these patches? Thanks!
>> 
>> There seemed to be some strong opinions that there should be a drm 
>> driver for this hardware, instead of an fb driver. So as there
>> seems to be disagreements about this, I'll leave this series to
>> Jean-Christophe, who's the primary maintainer.
> [Alison Wang]
> 
> Thanks for Tomi's comments.
> 
> I agree that we can implement the DRM driver for the DCU. As the
> bandwidth limitation, I suggest we use the fb driver firstly. On the
> other hand, the fb driver can meet the application requirement based
> on this SoC. We'll try to provide the DRM driver when this IP
> integrated into other SoC.

If you plan to move to DRM driver anyway, I would strongly suggest
merging only the DRM driver. If we merge the fb driver, and a bit later
the DRM driver for the same hardware, we'll have two drivers of which
the other is already deprecated.

 Tomi

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